Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as I get older patience , a commodity not particularly noticeable in the past , has gradually appeared in my personality , like a sandbank silted into place by too many frothing tides . |
| 2 | Since nineteen eighty three the government has reduced financial support by over two billion pound and reduced staff by seventy thousand , resulting in less maintenance and falling safety standards and with , as I said higher fares , but fewer services . |
| 3 | Okay the so as I said earlier opening K channels will hyperpolarize the membrane . |
| 4 | It was a sort of a , as you grew older mind you , it was i i i it could have been a little bit of a miserable sort of day . |
| 5 | Feel the stretch in that position — your standing leg will get lower as you obtain greater thigh strength . |
| 6 | As the EC opens membership negotiations with the members of EFTA , and as we develop closer relations with the emerging democracies of Central and Eastern Europe , we can look forward to a European Community which , by the year 2,000 , is truly becoming ‘ our Common European Home ’ . |
| 7 | These corners are sometimes almost more difficult for the men than for the women , as we use longer skis but I handled the course well and produced a 3rd place , my most encouraging FIS race result for some time . |
| 8 | That 's not to say that we stop looking at it , and we 'll be looking in more and more detail at the workloads , matched up against the resources , as we get better information . |
| 9 | As we get older reality requires that the ideal and the self are reconciled ; ambitions are relaxed ; unrealistic goals are abandoned as time and opportunity compel us to change the idealized concept we have for ourselves . |
| 10 | Ironically , as we come nearer home we will slip into the past tense . |
| 11 | So there is there is a wider acceptance on the one hand , of erm , sort of freedom , erm , and I know we 're back to this idea of sexual freedom , but there is the violence within our society , and and the the the question probably is , are those two connected , as we give greater freedom on the one hand , do we get a higher incidence of violence on the other hand . |
| 12 | We maintain the integrity of our nation as we promote better relations between neighbours . |
| 13 | In so far as they encourage greater police intervention on picket lines or at demonstrations , and enable them to impose their authority on many aspects of community life , the 1984 and 1986 Acts have profound implications for the possibility of disorder . |
| 14 | TrueType fonts can also be faster as they have better access to the computer 's memory . |
| 15 | Since then , cavity walls have been the norm as they offer better resistance to rain and damp penetration and have better sound and thermal characteristics . |
| 16 | A notice is preferable as it imposes greater protection than a caution ( which can be warned off ) but requires the consent of the landlord as the land certificate will need to be placed on deposit for the purpose of registration . |
| 17 | By reducing the probability that a firm will fail and by reducing creditors ' potential losses in the event of difficulty , this helps to reduce the costs a firm takes on as it takes bigger risks and nears bankruptcy . |
| 18 | On the clean sound , reverb really does make a difference , adding as it does greater depth to any guitar 's tone . |
| 19 | These other changes ( in levels of funding , the growing role of the Training Agency , and the enterprise culture as it affects higher education , for example ) will be incorporated into the discussion . |
| 20 | Iron was used for the shank as it provided greater strength and longer life than bronze would have done . |
| 21 | Other more exotic applications for the device will appear as it undergoes further improvement . |
| 22 | As he acquired further land and office in the north , the affinity inevitably widened . |
| 23 | As he acquired further land and office in the north , the affinity inevitably widened . |
| 24 | A LABOUR backbencher brandished a foot-long knife in the Commons yesterday as he demanded tougher laws against carrying weapons in Scotland . |
| 25 | Will he bear that in mind as he considers further recruitment for the TAVR in Northern Ireland ? |